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III Conference of the Department of Philology of the University of Cantabria Unplugged: the word as a new technology Santander (Spain) 23 & 24, November 2007

The vertiginous speed at which technologies advance and their mass introduction into the classroom have been a key factor in modern education. However, excessive or incorrect use of these tools may seriously hinder communication. Discourse techniques and the language of instruction are often occupying a mere anecdotal place while the burden of the transmission of knowledge falls on the system that, by definition, should be an aid. It is also necessary to reflect upon the cognitive processes that take place in the transmission of knowledge by means of the word. Some of the proposals related to this reflection could be: analysis and planning of resources and discourse procedures; communicative intentions; oral expression and communication in the classroom; word-building processes; reception, response and interference; dialogic mechanisms: phonic resources (intonation, onomatopoeia, etc.), grammar (selection of mode and verbal forms, emphatic constructions, order of sentence elements, coherence and cohesion in the discourse, markers, etc.), lexico-semantics (choice of appropriate vocabulary, synonymy, antonymy, euphemisms, circumlocutions, etc.), pragmatics (irony, subjectivity, rhetorical questions, verbal politeness, etc.); discourse moves; the adaptation of oral form to the communicative situation.

In short, the aim is to recover the value of the word in the classroom to explore the (extra) linguistic relationships between signs, teachers and students trying to think what is being said and to say what is being thought.

The Conference welcomes proposals for 20-minute papers. Communications will be followed by 10 minutes of discussion in which all participants are encouraged to share.

Those interested can send their 200-words proposals by e-mail to the following address: congreso.filologiaunican.es

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